I have a dedicated source server running on Windows and I am trying to configure it to autoupdate whenever there are new patches/fixes from Steam. Sometimes I don't play for a few days and the server is no accessible until I run the update.

I have the following when starting my server and I thought the -autoupdate would take care of that.

If you have root access you can set a scheduled task to update every morning (shutdown server first, can be done with serverchecker).

Don't forget you have to update mods very often after VALVe updates.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I don't access to the physical box to run any scheduled tasks. Also I did find out (the hard way), that Valve updates breaks the mods or changes the gameinfo.txt file so the mods don't all work.

Thanks again, hopefully Valve will fix it so Windows servers can autoupdate via the command line.